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I just released Issue 117 of The Secrets newsletter. This issue is titled Advanced World Design: Culture Wars. Readers come to fiction for, among other things, the chance to explore and experience cultures that they know little or nothing about. That sense of discovery works in all fiction, genre or not. And one huge way […]

I just released Issue 113 of The Secrets newsletter. This issue covers the delicate problem of Rookie Mistakes. In my career I’ve watched a lot of writers come into the business, get a couple books out, then vanish completely or resurface under another name. And then another one. And another one. A lot of the […]

Two issues of The Secrets went out to subscribers today. I’d completed 111 before the holiday, but it got lost in all that was going on. In it I discuss how writers can produce kick-butt dialogue. Issue 112 covers the tricky subject of editing: how to do it, what to look for, and how to […]

Issue #107 of The Secrets came out a week and a half ago. It covers the tricky subject of subplots. Really good subplots can take a dead-linear novel and provide a lot of kinks that dress it up. A lot of genres, like mysteries, tend to rely on subplots to provide depth to books; and […]

I released 21 Days to a Novel less than a month ago, and you’ve been buying up copies of it as if I was selling gold. I suppose, technically, I am. 21 Days to a Novel will help you put together all the material you need to start on that novel you’ve always wanted to […]

I know it’s taken forever, but I finally finished 21 Days To a Novel. I’d promised to turn it out as a stand-alone book back when I was running that sequence of podcasts in The Secrets, and it’s just taken me a bit longer to get it done than it should have. Something about writing […]